Caliban and the Witch - Silvia Federici (Chapter I - All the World Needs a Jolt)

Women, the body and 'primitive accumulation'. In just the first
chapter of this essential work, Silvia Federici wrestles with these
topics, and many more. Join us in the first of our readings on
'Caliban and the Witch', a groundbreaking book which tells the
hidden history of the role of women in relation to the birth of
capitalism, augments Marx's theory of primitive accumulation and
teaches us to look afresh at both colonisation and the witch
trials.  In this first episode we will be looking at heretic
movements, the very real class struggles waged by the peasants
during capital's violent reaction against feudalism, the effect of
the black death upon power relations and how the ruling class began
trying to reduce women to nothing more than the reproducers of the
labour force. This episode is part of our series on Marxist
feminists. As Thomas Sankara said, “Women hold up the other half of
the sky.”  Red Book Club recognizes that including the voices
of nonmen in our studies is not a niche activity, but is in fact an
essential step in gaining  the most comprehensive view of
the material conditions of the past  and present as we
possibly can; so we’ve planned this series to amplify the ideas
that nonmen have been bringing to the conversation for
 centuries. From Federici’s analysis of women as a means
of primitive accumulation to Luxemburg’s essay of the benefits
of revolution vs the impossibility of reform, each of these works
confronts history and the movement for social change through the
lens of the experiences of nonmen in society. Follow us on Twitter
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